I want… to introduce the smallest snail in the world

My daughter just brought this little snail in to meet me, which she found on her bedroom window-sill.

I wonder if it’s the smallest snail in the world?  It’s certainly very tiny… in this photo, the snail is posing on a UK 5p piece (this is the UK’s smallest coin, at about 1.7cm diameter).

Anyway… how cute?  *grin*

I should explain that both my daughter and I have a real fondness for snails.  We’re also quite keen on slugs, which are basically homeless snails when you think about it.  There’s a little slug that lives in the overflow pipe of our bathroom hand basin.  He comes out at night to nibble the bits of soap that are stuck to the side of the soap dish.  We call him Slippy The Soap-Eating Slug.  Yep, we’re weird